Crewe house prices

Crewe house prices are built from 57,211 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £124,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +48.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.5%.

HM Land Registry57,211 sales8,715 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Crewe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Crewe is £235,000 in 2026; the lowest is £45,310 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £47,000 to £235,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £104,362, so the real change over the whole record is +125.2% — about +2.65% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +48.7% in cash against +6.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Crewe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Crewe is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 13,668 certificates cover Crewe, and their median floor area is 81 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

3,941 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53,270 freehold — 6.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £117,000 and the median freehold sale £124,950 — a gap of +6.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +59.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 4,312 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire East, 44.0% of 197,366 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire East at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £694 for a one-bedroom home and £1,102 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £124,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.50% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CW2, 181 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 81 violent, 4 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 17 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.45 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 398,772 residents in Cheshire East across 174,854 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

16 state and independent schools have a CW2 postcode: 10 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Crewe sits below that national figure — -21.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,270 per square metre, across 8,715 of the 57,211 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £1,086 to £8,720,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Crewe sits in Cheshire East, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire East at 7.6 times median local earnings of £39,459 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Crewe

• Crewe Road796 sales
• Main Road591 sales
• West Street444 sales
• Alton Street382 sales
• Walthall Street336 sales
• Underwood Lane332 sales
• Newcastle Road331 sales
• Ruskin Road318 sales
• Broad Street312 sales
• James Atkinson Way301 sales
• Chester Road295 sales
• Bedford Street292 sales
• Field Lane289 sales
• Nantwich Road276 sales
• Middlewich Street267 sales
• Gainsborough Road253 sales
• Lansdowne Road249 sales
• Hughes Drive245 sales
• Badger Avenue244 sales
• Manor Way244 sales
• Minshull New Road237 sales
• Rochester Crescent233 sales
• Kestrel Drive225 sales
• Primrose Avenue219 sales
• Lambourn Drive217 sales
• Middlewich Road216 sales
• Elm Drive214 sales
• Hungerford Road213 sales
• Parkway208 sales
• Rope Lane200 sales
• Bessancourt199 sales
• Remer Street199 sales
• Beltony Drive196 sales
• Lime Tree Avenue196 sales
• Wistaston Road196 sales
• Henry Street194 sales
• London Road192 sales
• Merlin Way192 sales
• Valley Road184 sales
• Salisbury Close179 sales
• Sandhurst Avenue179 sales
• Westminster Street177 sales
• Church Lane172 sales
• Stewart Street172 sales
• Ford Lane169 sales
• Broughton Road166 sales
• Gresty Road165 sales
• Rolls Avenue161 sales
• Sydney Road159 sales
• Needham Drive157 sales
• Wistaston Green Road157 sales
• Bradfield Road155 sales
• Holland Street154 sales
• Verdin Court152 sales
• St Matthews Close151 sales
• Lord Street149 sales
• Coleridge Way145 sales
• Queen Street144 sales
• Langley Drive141 sales
• Newfield Drive140 sales

Postcode districts covering Crewe

• CW2£124,000 median
• CW1£104,950 median
• CW4£230,000 median
• CW3£180,000 median
• CW5£178,950 median

What is the average house price in Crewe?

The median price paid in Crewe across every sale on the register is £124,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Crewe?

57,211 sales are on record for Crewe, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Crewe house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +48.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Crewe house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £235,000, set in 2026. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Crewe?

£1,270 per square metre, from the 8,715 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Crewe house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.